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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Sunil Sharma
DESCRIPTION:One Divan and Multiple Poets: The Strange Case of Makhfi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunil Sharma \nBoston University \nEnglish Lecture \nMonday\, May 4\, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time \nOnline via Zoom \nRegistration Required: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6QTp311ZThKErILePfrBEQ \n\nThe poet behind the Divan-e Makhfi is thought to have been the Mughal Princess Zebunnisa (d. 1702). However\, there are historical and philological problems with this attribution that have been debated by some scholars. While also discussing the problem of authorship of the Divan\, this talk will focus on the history of compilation and readership of the text\, as it circulated in manuscript and lithographed copies\, and came to be considered as a kind of canonical work by an early female poet whose poems deserved a modern scholarly edition. \n  \nSunil Sharma is Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for the Study of Asia at Boston University. He has authored several books and also published translations of works from Persian and Urdu. His areas of research are Persian poetry and court cultures\, history of the book\, and travel writing\, and has a particular interest in the participation of women in Persianate literary cultures.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-sunil-sharma/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260507T160000
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SUMMARY:Biblical Monotheism: Exclusive or Inclusive? – Benjamin Sommer
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will examine the discussion of pluralism in the field of comparative theology in light of a core question in the history of Israelite religion. It will create a dialogue between the work of historians of religion such as Yehezkel Kaufmann and theologians such as John Hick\, with some reference to the Egyptologist Jan Assmann\, moving from a close reading of passages in Deuteronomy\, Psalms\, and Isaiah to much broader theological issues. \nBenjamin Sommer is Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His books\, Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition (2015)\, The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel (2009)\, and A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66 (1998)\, received multiple prizes in the United States and Israel. The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz described Sommer as “an iconoclast but a traditionalist-he shatters idols and prejudices in order to nurture Jewish tradition and its applicability today.” He is the subject of one of the documentaries in the On the Threshold series of films on contemporary Christian\, Jewish\, and Muslim theologians. The film is available on You Tube (https://youtu.be/HkucTib3fMk). \nThursday\, May 7\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nBiblical Monothesim: Exclusive or Inclusive? \nBenjamin Sommer (Jewish Theological Seminary)\nModerator: William Schniedewind (UCLA) \nThe Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/biblical-monothesim-exclusive-or-inclusive-benjamin-sommer/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260507T160000
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SUMMARY:First Epistle to the Amphibians: Reading and Conversation with Ricardo Domeneck\, Chris Daniels\, and Patrícia Lino
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch for FIRST EPISTLE TO THE AMPHIBIANS\, a collection of poetry by Brazilian author Ricardo Domeneck\, translated by Chris Daniels\, published by World Poetry Books in April 2026. The event will consist of a reading and conversation with Ricardo Domeneck\, Chris Daniels\, and Patrícia Lino. \nRicardo Domeneck is a Brazilian writer based in Berlin. He has published ten collections of poems and two of short prose in Brazil and Portugal. He is the recipient of two of Brazil’s most prestigious literary awards\, the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Alphonsus de Guimaraens\, and selected volumes of his poems have appeared in German\, Dutch and Spanish. Working with sound and performance\, he has presented work in several museums and galleries. First Epistle to the Amphibians (World Poetry\, 2026) is the first book of his poetry to appear in English translation. \nChris Daniels is a feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of poetry by Fernando Pessoa\, Josely Vianna Baptista\, Adelaide Ivánova\, Lubi Prates\, and Orides Fontela. His selected volume of Ricardo Domeneck’s poems\, First Epistle to the Amphibians\, will be released by World Poetry Books in April 2026. \nPatrícia Lino is a poet\, an essayist\, a performer\, a translator and Associate Professor of poetry and visual arts at UCLA. Among her books\, videopoems\, translations\, performances\, talk-performances and sound experiences are\, for instance\, Todo poema é um kindergarten (2025)\, I Am a Poet\, I Was a Starling (2025)\, Imperativa Ensaística Diabólica. Infraleituras da Poesia Expandida Brasileira (2024)\, O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial (2024)\, or A Ilha das Afeições (2023).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/first-epistle-to-the-amphibians-reading-and-conversation-with-ricardo-domeneck-chris-daniels-and-patricia-lino/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia\, 1600–1800: Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited: Conference 3: Empires of Things
DESCRIPTION:In this year’s Core Program\, historians of the Ottoman\, Qing\, and Mughal empires revisit the problem of comparison by considering synchronicities and structural parallels across Asia. \nThe third conference looks at Society\, Materiality\, and Knowledge.  Increased mobility and commercial activity across the early modern Eurasian space heightened imperial concerns about the effectiveness of political control over increasingly assertive and unruly subjects. Anxieties over a changing social and economic order engendered a new momentum in cultural production\, reflected in literature\, in legal codes that tried to reinforce status hierarchies\, and in new religious and spiritual movements. In what new ways did merchants trade\, how did artisans and craftsmen organize themselves\, how did guilds transform\, how did the pious communicate with each other\, how did common subjects live\, how did spatial imaginaries change? This conference follows the currents of social\, material\, and knowledge movements–across local\, communal\, oceanic\, or trans-imperial space–that propelled\, supplemented\, paralleled\, superseded\, or completely ignored the agenda of the empire. Rather than assuming a dichotomy of state and society as the norm\, this conference explores different modes of mutual interactions in various arenas of power. \nThe list of speakers\, the conference schedule\, and the registration form are available on our website. \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in person at the Clark Library. \nRegistration will close on Monday\, May 4 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/core3-empires-of-things/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260511T160000
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SUMMARY:Jolene Rickard to present the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Lecture\, May 11
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of Art History proudly presents the 2026 Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lecture\, featuring Jolene Rickard\, Associate Professor\, Departments of Art History + Visual Studies\, Art American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program\, Cornell University. \nProfessor Rickard’s lecture is entitled\, “Creative Defiance as Sensory Ecologies.” \nThe Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lectureship was established in memory of UCLA alumna Gretchen Millson in December 2009 by her husband\, Dr. John J. Millson. Gretchen graduated from UCLA with a B.A. from the Department of Art in 1961. This endowed fund provides much-needed resources to the department to allow us to grow and continue our longstanding tradition of excellence. For more information\, click here. \nThe presentation\, with a reception to follow\, will be held on Monday\, May 11\, 2026 at 4 PM at the Luskin Conference Center’s Laureate Room. \nKindly RSVP by May 4 to ycastellanos@support.ucla.edu or 310-825-0913.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/jolene-rickard-to-present-the-2026-gretchen-taylor-millson-lecture-may-11/
LOCATION:UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260512T140000
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SUMMARY:Middle Eastern and North African Jews and the Birth of Modern Fashion: A Hidden History
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, historians Devi Mays and Julia Phillips Cohen discuss the unknown role that Jews from the eastern and southern Mediterranean played in the shaping of modern couture. Following two fashion houses run by an interconnected network of North African and Middle Eastern Jews in fin-de-siècle Paris\, the talk reveals the participation of these firms in a global web of makers\, suppliers\, and designers stretching from Algiers and Constantinople to Cairo\, Tabriz and Kyoto. \nJulia Phillips Cohen is an Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her publications include the books Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (New York: Oxford University Press\, 2014) and Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History\, 1700-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press\, 2014)\, co-authored and edited with Sarah Abrevaya Stein\, as well as articles in the American Historical Review\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Journal of Modern History\, Jewish Social Studies and Jewish Quarterly Review. She is currently at work\, together with Devi Mays\, on a book exploring a forgotten network of North African and Middle Eastern Jews in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Europe. \nDevi Mays is an Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the University of Michigan. Her book\, Forging Ties\, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford: Stanford University Press\, 2020) won the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize from the American Historical Association\, the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture\, the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Africa\, Americas\, Asia and Oceania from the Association for Jewish Studies\, and the Alixa Naff Migration Studies Prize from the Moise Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies.  Her articles have appeared in Jewish Social Studies\, Mashriq & Mahjar\, Jewish Quarterly Review\, Journal of Modern History and AJS Perspectives. She is currently working with Julia Phillips Cohen on a book exploring a forgotten network of North African and Middle Eastern Jews in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe. \nTuesday\, May 12\, 2026 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM \nMiddle Eastern and North African Jews and the Birth of Modern Fashion: A Hidden History \nJulia P. Cohen (Vanderbilt) & Devi Mays (University of Michigan)\nModerator: Aomar Boum (UCLA) \nAl Finci Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies\nCosponsored by the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/middle-eastern-and-north-african-jews-and-the-birth-of-modern-fashion-a-hidden-history/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Al Finci Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTSTAMP:20260418T070108
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SUMMARY:2026 Ancient Studies Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Global Antiquity is delighted to invite UCLA faculty members to an ancient studies writing retreat. Join colleagues from across the Humanities and Social Sciences for an opportunity to make meaningful progress on your latest project in a quiet\, contemplative space. The event will take place from 9:00 am–5:00 pm in Royce 306 on Wednesday\, May 13\, with breakfast and coffee served at 9:00 am and lunch at 12:00 pm. Please feel free to come and go as your schedule allows\, and we hope to see you there! \nThis event is graciously sponsored by a grant from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center\, Division of Humanities\, Division of Social Sciences\, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities\, and School of Music\, and School of Theater\, Film\, and Television.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/2026-ancient-studies-writing-retreat/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T131500
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SUMMARY:Music and Religion in Popular Culture:  The Case of Orthodox Jews and Christian Contemporary Music
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1960s religious practitioners have created their own music to express their beliefs and values to shield the community from popular culture.  The Irony is they use the popular culture that they reject from American culture in their music.  This presentation by Mark Kligman (UCLA) will highlight important composers and groups with audio and video examples of Orthodox Jewish and Christian Contemporary Music. \nRSVP required here for in-person attendance. \nRegister for Zoom link here. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/music-and-religion-in-popular-culture-the-case-of-orthodox-jews-and-christian-contemporary-music/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260520T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260520T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T070108
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SUMMARY:Art Council Lecture Series – A Conversation with Annemarie Jacir
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, May 20\, at 2 PM\, PT the Art History Department will host Writer and Director\, Annemarie Jacir for a conversation about her film “Palestine 36.” \nMs. Jacir will be appearing virtually for this event.  Guests may attend in-person in Dodd 247 or attend via webinar. \nKindly RSVP here to receive the webinar information prior to this event.  All are welcome!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/art-council-lecture-series-a-conversation-with-annemarie-jacir/
LOCATION:UCLA Dodd Hall\, Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Department Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260528T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260528T200000
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SUMMARY:The Past\, Present\, and Future of Jews and the Labor Movement in Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:What drew Jewish immigrants to the labor movement? How did unions become distinctly “Jewish” spaces – and what happened when they changed? Join historians\, organizers\, and community leaders for a panel on Jewish labor activism in Los Angeles: from the open-shop battles of the early 20th century to today. \nThursday\, May 28\, 2026 • UCLA Labor Center • 5:30 PM\n675 S Park View Street\, Los Angeles\, CA 90057 \nThe Past\, Present\, and Future of Jews and the Labor Movement in Los Angeles \nFeaturing Jackie Goldberg (Community Leader & Labor Activist) \nSponsored by\nThe UCLA Labor Center\nThe UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\nThe Jewish Partnership for Los Angeles \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-past-present-and-future-of-jews-and-the-labor-movement-in-los-angeles/
LOCATION:UCLA Labor Center\, 675 S Park View St\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260530T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260530T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T070108
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SUMMARY:ANTIGONE
DESCRIPTION:ANTIGONE by Sophokles\nA live theatrical performance in celebration of Hellenic culture\nNewly translated and adapted by Kenneth Cavander\nDirected by Andy Wolk \nMay 30\, 2026\n2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.\nAntaeus Theatre Company\nGlendale\, California \n[The performance length is 90 minutes] \nA post-performance talkback with Artistic Director Nike Doukas and Professor Kathryn Morgan (Department of Classics\, UCLA) will follow the show. A reception will take place afterward. \nTICKET PRICES:\nAdults – $35.00 + $3.00 convenience fee\nUniversity students – $30.00 + $3.00 convenience fee \nBe sure to use promo code\nUCLAHellenicCulture to checkout!\nClick here to purchase tickets \n“And if I die\nI will die happy.” \nAntigone’s decision to oppose her uncle Kreon’s edict and bury her brother’s body sets into motion a series of events that will challenge the bonds of family\, law\, and justice. Kenneth Cavander (The Curse of Oedipus) returns to Antaeus in a powerful new adaptation of Sophokles’ Antigone. \nDirected by Andy Wolk\, this Greek tragedy delves deep into the clash between duty to the state and loyalty to one’s kin. \nThis event is made possible with support from the Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nParking information:\nAntaeus Theatre Company is located at:\n110 East Broadway\nGlendale\, CA 91205 \nExchange Parking Structure\nAddress: 115 North Artsakh Avenue\nRates: First 90 minutes free\, $2.00/hour\, Maximum daily charge: $12.00\nWith validation: $1 for up to four hours \nMarketplace Parking Structure\nAddress: 120 Artsakh Avenue\nRates: First 90 minutes free\, $2.00/hour\, Maximum daily charge: $12.00\nWith validation: $1 for up to four hours \nAntaeus Theatre Company offers validation for both of these lots. Ticket must be scanned before 4 hours pass in order for the validation to take effect.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/antigone/
LOCATION:Antaeus Theatre Company\, 110 East Broadway\, Glendale\, CA\, 91205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Cultural Heritage,Hellenic,Heritage,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260531T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260531T160000
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SUMMARY:(De)medicalization and the Dying Body: Sallekhanā\, Kinship\, and the Limits of Liberal Bioethics
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Miki Chase (U of Wisconsin-Madison) explores how trajectories of illness and care\, such as terminal cancer or anticipated cognitive decline\, are reinterpreted through Jain doctrinal frameworks in the narratives of adult children of women who undertake the Jain ritual fast to death (sallekhanā or santhāra). Drawing on ethnographic accounts of women’s deaths in contemporary urban Jain households\, Chase traces how narratives of bodily decline are reframed not as losses to be managed through medical intervention but as conditions of spiritual possibility that invite ascetic detachment and renunciation. Rather than resisting biomedical or bioethical paradigms outright\, these narratives inhabit a complex zone of overlap where cognitive clarity is both a medical and religious ideal; the attenuation of pain is karmically elevated rather than clinically managed; and the logic of institutionalized care is subtly displaced not by the absence of obligation but by alternate forms of care. In tracing the limits of bioethical paradigms that presume the necessity of medicalization and institutional oversight\, this talk describes how “illness narratives” and “santhāra narratives” coalesce to challenge prevailing understandings of what it means to die well\, and how suffering\, pain\, and the medicalized body is accounted for in the lives—and deaths—of Jain women. \nRSVP here to attend in person \n(Parking information for Royce Hall) \nRegister here for Zoom link \nMiki Chase is Assistant Professor in South Asian Studies and holds the Śrī Anantnāth Endowed Chair in Jain Studies. Her research and teaching focuses on intersections of religion\, law\, and gender in questions of care around death and dying in India\, with a specific focus on Jainism. \nDr. Chase received her PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University\, and her doctoral work received the Mohini Jain Presidential Chair in Jain Studies Best Dissertation Prize (2024). Her research focuses on the contemporary practice of the legally contested Jain voluntary ritual fast until death known variably as sallekhanā\, santhāra\, or samādhi-maraṇa\, examining how lay Jains reconcile ideals and concepts outlined in scripture with the interreligious pressures of urban life and modernization of death\, foregrounding the centrality of women’s moral subjectivities in such negotiations. Her research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the American Institute for Indian Studies (AIIS)\, including the Rachel F. and Scott McDermott Junior Research Fellowship. Her book in progress is tentatively titled The Ambiguity of the Vow: Law\, Kinship\, and Gender in Pathologizing the Jain Fast Until Death. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/demedicalization-and-the-dying-body-sallekhana-kinship-and-the-limits-of-liberal-bioethics/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90095
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260605
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260607
DTSTAMP:20260418T070108
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SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Professors Joseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, and Deaglán Ó Donghaile\, Liverpool John Moores University \nA central figure in the literary and cultural spheres of the late nineteenth century\, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was also the originator of Irish modernism. Still\, literary scholarship has largely sidelined his powerful influence over this movement. Regarded by his contemporaries as an outstanding artist\, critic\, and public intellectual until his imprisonment in 1895\, current research on Wilde tends to confine his leading presence within the late Victorian aesthetic and decadent movements. By highlighting this overlooked aspect of Wilde’s legacy\, “Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies” will raise critical and theoretical awareness of his influence over modernist innovation not only within the field of literary production but also in related artistic areas in Ireland and beyond. \nThe literary revival of the 1890s has been cited as the launching ground for experimental modernism in Ireland\, with the publication and staging of works by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)\, John Millington Synge (1871–1909)\, and Augusta Gregory (1852–1932) that celebrate rural or Celticist versions of modernity. The revival’s longer-term origins\, however\, can be traced to the metropolitan and radical aesthetes\, feminists\, queer artists\, anarchists\, and Irish separatists who belonged to the milieus in which Oscar Wilde moved.  This conference will draw on the Clark Library’s imposing archive\, the “Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle Collection\,” to explore the dialogues that these figures established\, along with their interactions with traditions of Irish and\, more broadly\, American and European modernism. \nThe list of speakers\, the conference schedule\, and the registration form are available on our website. \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in person at the Clark Library. \nRegistration will close on Monday\, June 1 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/modernist-legacies/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Pooyan Tamimi Arab
DESCRIPTION:Woman Life Freedom in the Mirror of Scholarship: Responses from the Arts\, Humanities\, and Social Sciences\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPooyan Tamimi Arab \nUtrecht University \nEnglish Lecture \nMonday\, June 8\, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time \nOnline via Zoom \nRegistration Required: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y6a-WJxYTX-wwqBuhAYndg \n\nThis presentation will survey scholarship in the arts\, humanities\, and social sciences responding to the Woman\, Life\, Freedom uprising in Iran. Drawing on a bibliography of over one hundred publications—books\, journal articles\, and edited volume chapters published since the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini in September 2022—it will outline four main thematic clusters: Chronologies\, Culture\, Aesthetics\, and Nation. These will serve to map shifting interpretations of women’s emancipation\, cultural change and resistance\, visual activism\, and national belonging. The presentation will also reflect on how to research a protest movement from exile and draw attention to under-cited sources\, including scholarship produced in Iran. \n  \nPooyan Tamimi Arab is Associate Professor of Secular and Religious Studies at Utrecht University\, a member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and a member of GAMAAN—the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran. Between 2025 and 2030\, he is the principal investigator of Iran’s Secular Shift\, a mixed-methods project on non-religion and demands for political secularism funded by the Dutch Research Council.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-pooyan-tamimi-arab/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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